Add user to group from command line (CMD)

On Windows computer we can add users to a group from command line too. We can use net
localgroup command for this

net localgroup group_name UserLoginName /add

For example to add a user to administrators group from command line we can run the below
command. In the below example I have taken username as John.

net localgroup administrators John /add

This command works on all editions of Windows OS i.e Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 7. In Vista and Windows 7, even if you run the above
command from administrator login you may still get access denied error

The solution for this is to run the command from elevated administrator account. See How to open
elevated administrator command prompt

When you run the 'net localgroup' command from elevated command prompt:

C:\Windows\system32>net localgroup administrators techblogger /add

The command completed successfully.